just 15 miles north of the u.s. border. it's not often that a presidential birth place comes up for sale. >> i know. i think americans should come up here and own a piece of americana very easily. >> reporter: -you are fairly convinced that he was born here. >> i am actually. i really do believe that chester a. arthur was america's first canadian president. >> reporter: okay. this is the research room. reporter: just down the road in the village of stanbridge east, this couple oversees the region's archives. the question of where chester arthur was actually born, this is a good place to come. >> this would be the place to come, yes. >> reporter: this much we know. chester's father william arthur was an itinerant minister and teacher who travel back and forth across the very poorest border. when his son, the future president, was born, this was the school house where chester allen arthur's father was teaching in 1829. >> right. exactly. >> reporter: the year that he was born. >> right. right here in canada. >> exactly. our r